weinraub’s words

Becca asked to wear a particular outfit yesterday: spider man shirt and a skirt.

That’s my girl.

Benjamin, just over one year old, can slide down from the bed: one his belly, he rotates his legs out to the edge of the bed and then slides downward until his feet touch the ground.

Annie tells me that he has a decent size fall today – his little standup-roller-cage (I forget the real name of those things), rolled over and he fell right on his face. He sure does has a bunch of scrapes on the left side of his face. Annie reports that he only cried a little bit.

A few days ago, Becca found a dead moth. I figured it would be a good opportunity for some discovery, so we spent some time looking at the moth using a small magnifying glass. She had already seen a magnifying glass in one of the Pooh videos, but this was her first time to use one.

No extraordinary “Aha!” or”Eureka!” to report. But it is noteworthy that now, every time she finds some dead thing – and with the new kitten Saen around, we seem to have an endless supply of dead moths, dead geckos, and dead frogs, all of which Becca will fearlessly pick up and say? ดาย แลว? Daai leaw (”died”) – she calls for the magnifying glass by asking for “Big. So big”.

If only she hadn’t dropped the magnifying glass through the porch planks into our standing pool of malarial water (actually, there are fish and frogs down there and the Thais assure me that such an ecosystem will not be a net contributer to mosquitoes). Guess I’ll have to get her a new magnifying glass.

Today used the Isaan expression บ่มี (bo mee) rather than the straight Thai expression ไม่มี (mai mee) or the English ‘none’. Wow.

Last week before his first Benjamin’s first birthday.

He seems to have seven teeth: four bottom, three top. Pretty weird.

Still no sign of his left nut. Doc says no sweat, we’ll wait until he’s two before doing anything about it.

He knows where he wants to go and points there.

Getting more difficult lately. Cries a lot. Wants to be carried. Still inexplicably drawn to power cords.